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How can I tell if the integrated controller is actually doing anything with the 2 old hdds? When I think about it I'm sure they aren't mirroring. Is the integrated controller actually doing anything? Is it needed to run the two old scsi hdds or is something else doing that?

"The 6i and 6i+ are physically identical adapters. The only difference is that the 6i+ is flashed at the factory to V7.0 firmware to support the x206 and x306. A ServeRAID-6i+ is also supported in servers that support the ServeRAID-6i."

I was unable to find ServeRAID-6i+ installation guide, but, according to Adaptec site, ServeRAID-6i+ will take control of integrated RAID (and will hide it). Full backup is recommended. When creating RAID, all data is lost, but since you already have one mirror, in your case data should be preserved (I am not sure, that data won't be lost - better check instructions that came with card).

Ok. I just checked the specs on the server AND the card, and it looks to me like that server only has a single backplane. If you were using the integrated RAID1, and then you installed the 6i+, you're in trouble.. The 6i+ takes over the ONLY channel you have. So, the two drives that were in there will NOT be functional anymore, since the 6i+ doesn't know anything about them.

You need to back those drives up and then re-create the mirror (or the new RAID 5 array or whatever it is you want), and then restore the data.

HTH,
exx

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PowerhousecomputingAuthor Commented: 2004-09-02

Ah ok.

Well I put the card in slot4 and it did fit. It seems to be working now, I can see more than just array A (theres B, C and spares now).

So if I try to put a hdd that has 10GB already on it, into an array with a blank hdd, thats not possible? Do both hdds have to be blank to be put into a mirror array?

Ah I wont be doing that then! I have taken the controller card out now and trying a different approach...

I've used Windows' disk management which supports mirroring and is working ok it seems. One problem though is the mirrored hdd's are appearing as two drives, albeit identical. Is it possible to hide one of the drives? I have heard Partition Magic 8.0 Pro can do that, I really don't want 2 identical drives appearing on the network as it will cause confusion.

Please explain what you need to do. As I understand, you had system with 2 mirrored SCSI disks and one tape drive. Then you bought additional 4 SCSI HDD's and ZCR card, since integrated RAID supported only one array. Right?

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PowerhousecomputingAuthor Commented: 2004-09-02

Yes thats correct, but I have scrapped my original plan and im trying out windows now. Its a long story ;(

I don't have much experience with windows 2000 software RAID, but you assingn volume letter to the whole mirror, not to disks in it. What do you mean by "2 identical drives on network"? You share what you want to.

I don't recommend using Partition Magic though.

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PowerhousecomputingAuthor Commented: 2004-09-02

In disk management it shows both hdds that are mirrored, both assigned to F: which is fine. But in My Computer on the server it shows 2 drives, F: and G:, both are indentical. I thought it would only show F: which it should.

F: is shared, G: is not, but G: still shows up over the network. I want to hide G: somehow.

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PowerhousecomputingAuthor Commented: 2004-09-03

I have spoken to Powerquest (now owned by Symantec) about the problem and they say neither Partition Magic or Volume Manager will work, it is an OS problem.

IBM also say they cannot help. I can't find anything on the Microsoft Knowledge base about two drives appearing.